What does radical Christianity look like?

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   NGRIA Bassettposted 13 years ago

   I hear of radical Islams whose beliefs leads them to become human bombs, what would that look like for Christians?

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      quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Read the book of acts and you have your answer.

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      Daniel Carterposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      The religion forum here on hubpages.
      

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      Kadmielsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      just look at mormons or johova witnesses

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      spiritualityposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Scientists of religion consider Christian fundamentalists, you know the ones that kill doctors who perform abortions for instance, to be very similar indeed to Muslim extremists.

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      dutchman1951posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      To this Christian, when it happend it looked like useless death. A wrong cause, a lost soul. But later that night it hit me about something. He had the strength to Die for his Beliefe.
      
      When I finaly faced it, and stopped saying beter him than me. I found myself praying for that same strength to die for mine, when and if that time came. Thank God it did not.
      
      Jon

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   zadrobiposted 13 years ago

   I would say it would look something like the crusades.

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   yes2truthposted 13 years ago

   It doesn't look like anything, for in The Light of The Truth it does not exist. The Truth is not radical, The Truth is The Truth and The Truth is the Lord Jesus Christ - period.
   
   Only the Christian Religion has radicals within its membership. It also has legalists, judaisers, progressives, liberals, libertines, gays, lesbians, adulterers, fornicators, blasphemers galore; you name it or them and the wretched Christian Religion has got it or them, but one thing it hasn't got is The Truth.

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      rhamsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Could you please define "Truth" for me?

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   Mishaposted 13 years ago

   

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      rhamsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Very cryptic answer Misha. I guess you have to draw your own conclusions is what you are saying.  But how is your answer related to the topic?

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      rmcrayneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Good one Misha. 
      
      After 9/11, in a special West Wing episode, President Bartlett's team offered this:
      
      Osama Bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists are to Islam as
      
      KKK is to Christianity.

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         Eaglekiwiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Sounds like Hollywood.

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      rednckwmnposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      

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      quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

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         tantrumposted 13 years agoin reply to this

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            quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            tantrum wrote:

            
            tantrum / earnest / misha / randy / wordscribe
            
            
            
            Me

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   Mishaposted 13 years ago

   I thought it was transparent enough - radical christianity looks and sounds like this guy with many teeth. Behaves similarly, too

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   rhamsonposted 13 years ago

   I am such a moron.  I took it to mean truth is life and death.

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   Mishaposted 13 years ago

   LOL I miss on jokes pretty often and don't think I'm a moron. Relax

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   Scott.Lifeposted 13 years ago

   I'm a radical Christian; I refuse to be put into a box and labeled,I associate with sinners, atheist, non-believers and those who question God. I allow others their opinion and leave the judgment to God, and I refuse to be told by any man on earth what God's will for me is. Yep I might just bring down the whole religion they should definitely stone a blasphemer like me.

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      Eaglekiwiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Sounds like you know my Father

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   yes2truthposted 13 years ago

   "Could you please define "Truth" for me?"
   
   I already have.

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      rhamsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      You seem to have it all figured out.  Christ can come anytime and you will be ready to go.
      
      Remember a questioning mind is an active mind the reverse is quite dead.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "You seem to have it all figured out."
    
    Of course, are you not Born Again, too, for if you are you should also have it all 'figured out' (your words) - I don't have a monopoly in The Truth.
    
    "Christ can come anytime and you will be ready to go."
    
    I fail to see what this statement has to do with my having it all 'figured out'.
    
    Ask away, but if you do not understand what I have already said then you may a have a problem or three.

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       rhamsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Wow are we defensive?  I merely suggested that if you have a one word answer to a very complex question you have cut off the possibility of learning something more.  That is why I stated a questioning mind is an active mind the reverse is quite dead.
       
       I don't see how you could suppose I have it all figured out from my post.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "I merely suggested that if you have a one word answer to a very complex question you have cut off the possibility of learning something more."
    
    Ah, herein lies one your three problems: Complexity and in that word I know you have nothing to offer me.
    
    For there is a simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Cor 11:3
    
    No, I do not have a one word answer, but I do have two words: The Truth. Now we are back to where I started. The question now is are you any the wiser? Some how I just get the feeling that you won't be.

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       tantrumposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You either

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          Jeramiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Hey guys;  I have a religion and a band wagon does anyone want to jump on it?   I am right caus I said so!  we will anialiate anyone that disagrees.  they are wrong cause they think that I am not correct.   DO  YA BELIEVE    DO YA BELIEVE   COME ON NOW DO YA BELIEVE   LET ME HERE AN AMEN

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       rhamsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I stand corrected and appologize. The Truth must have a definition I will include the Websters definition of the word and perhaps you can tie it to you statement so we both have a clearer understanding.
       
       1 a archaic : fidelity, constancy b : sincerity in action, character, and utterance
       2 a (1) : the state of being the case : fact (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : actuality (3) often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality b : a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true <truths of thermodynamics> c : the body of true statements and propositions
       3 a : the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality b chiefly British : true 2 c : fidelity to an original or to a standard
       4 capitalized Christian Science : god
       
       — in truth : in accordance with fact : actually
       
       
       Please pick one that we can both relate too.

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          quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I prefer the definition that The Messiah gave when He said
          "I AM.....THE TRUTH"

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             UpHisAssposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             THE GREATEST LIE ... EVER TOLD.
             
             Good job. Excellent work. More for US now....

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    Jeramiposted 13 years ago

    a radical christian believes that wahatever they were taught by someone else is worth killing for.  where did the free will go.   doing that cause of what someone else said????
    putting my faith in what someone else teaches????
    Why cain't I read it for my self????

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       earnestshubposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       
       
       Well said Jerami.
       I don't know about you, but when I read I do not have people around me telling me the  meaning as I read.
       If I need to know I can ask.

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       sneakorocksolidposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You were given free agency what you do with it is totally up to you.

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          cosetteposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          i love that term "free agency". it has helped me through life more than you can imagine in terms of undue worry and such...

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    earnestshubposted 13 years ago

    Ah Misha. So direct! And accurate!

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    tantrumposted 13 years ago

    You
    
    
    Me

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       quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You

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    quietnessandtrustposted 13 years ago

    Did U get it 2 play?

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    tantrumposted 13 years ago

    Yes!! Me
    
    
    
    
    I can't open the page where your music is

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       quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I sent a new link....2 of them....

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          tantrumposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks! I'll check that 2morrow !

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             quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

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    tantrumposted 13 years ago

    

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    Great.
    
    <text removed - no personal attacks in the Forums.>

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       UpHisAssposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Good work.

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       tantrumposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes! I'm a child ! a child at heart. That's why I'm a happy person
       you sound old and bitter. Like the Bible. Like your avatar
       I feel sorry for you! It seems like life doesn't treat you well! Poor you !

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    David Bowmanposted 13 years ago

    What does radical Christianity look like? Well, it looks like parents who don't take their children to the hospital for proper treatment when they get sick, and instead, try to pray the illness away resulting in the death of the child.
    
    http://whatstheharm.net/faithhealing.html
    
    It looks like political activism that tries to prevent children from learning well established science.
    
    It looks like parents who frighten their children by telling them that, if they don't love Jesus or follow the Bible, they will burn in the flames of Hell for all eternity.
    
    It looks like people who don't care about changing the environmental policies that are currently causing the death of our planet because Jesus is coming back soon and will fix everything anyway.
    
    It looks like people who condemn condom use in Africa even though it would save thousands from getting and eventually dying from HIV.
    
    It looks like people who condemn stem cell research because, to them, a three-day-old blastocyst (a fertilized egg composed of about 150 cells) is more important than the three year old with leukemia who would benefit from a treatment derived from stem cells.

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       earnestshubposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I am on the other side of the planet, and Christians look the same in my country too.
       We have the usual loonies, but the church here at the coalface does not preach to the poor and homeless they help. The public would not wear it, they would lose cred so fast if they did.

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          David Bowmanposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I had heard that there are some fundamentalists over where you are. I think the famous creation "scientist" Ken Ham is from there. He is now over here bugging us with his pseudoscientific nonsense.

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    Valerie Fposted 13 years ago

    To me, radical Christianity is active and dynamic Christianity that does not allow people to get comfortable with the status quo. It inspires hope and action rather than fear and stagnation.

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    ralwusposted 13 years ago

    They blow up Dr's and Nurses and little girls gettin' abortions among other things.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "I stand corrected and appologize. The Truth must have a definition I will include the Websters definition of the word and perhaps you can tie it to you statement so we both have a clearer understanding.
    
    1 a archaic : fidelity, constancy b : sincerity in action, character, and utterance
    2 a (1) : the state of being the case : fact (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : actuality (3) often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality b : a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true  c : the body of true statements and propositions
    3 a : the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality b chiefly British : true 2 c : fidelity to an original or to a standard
    4 capitalized Christian Science : god
    
    — in truth : in accordance with fact : actually
    
    
    Please pick one that we can both relate too."
    
    Why would I pick a word/definition from a secular book whose authors have no Spiritual understanding?

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "I feel sorry for you! It seems like life doesn't treat you well! Poor you!"
    
    Not half as sorry as I feel for you.

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       UpHisAssposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Excellent. Pity them their inadequacies. Very good. You have done well. Perhaps a little more scorn though? I find it works very well.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "Excellent. Pity them their inadequacies. Very good. You have done well. Perhaps a little more scorn though? I find it works very well."
    
    He has no inadequacies compared to you? LOL

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       UpHisAssposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Wonderful. More scorn though.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "Wonderful. More scorn though."
    
    What scorn?

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       UpHisAssposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, yes - excellent. Willful ignorance also. Very good.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "Yes, yes - excellent. Willful ignorance also. Very good."
    
    Yes, yes - excellent. Accusations from The Accuser. Very good. Keep it up.

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       quietnessandtrustposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Acknowledging the mockery is useless. Move along.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "Acknowledging the mockery is useless. Move along."
    
    I have mocked the mockery not acknowledged it.
    
    Furthermore, since when were you made an authority here, and did I take this thread off topic with infantile cartoons?
    
    What I suggest is that you make a relevant comment and get the thread back on topic instead of minding my business.

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    Sanctus Vesaniaposted 13 years ago

    To move this thread back on topic...
    
    Radical mainstream (fake) Christianity, would probably look something like this note.
    
    - a video game of all things

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    ScarletRyan1970posted 13 years ago

    Hello,
    
    It looks like Bin Laden with a Bapist Bible in his hand.

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    yes2truthposted 13 years ago

    "Scientists of religion consider Christian fundamentalists, you know the ones that kill doctors who perform abortions for instance, to be very similar indeed to Muslim extremists."
    
    In this statement you are comparing one religion with another - the Islamic Religion with the Christian Religion - all religion is of the Devil.
    
    Following The Lord Jesus Christ is not a religion and followers of The Lord Jesus Christ do not go around killing doctors or anyone else for that matter.

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